Chapter 33

Gross Wardein - Social Life

Pg 270

"They described his appearance —his tall, lank, muscular form, and mentioned that he had been much in Spain, and I saw that it must be that most ubiquitous of travellers —Mr. Borrow."

Pg 271

"Just within the town, my companions pointed out to me a fine large park, and handsome house, belonging to a Roman Catholic Bishop^ much beloved by the people, and now in an Austrian prison {Arad, I believe), sentenced to imprisonment for twenty years. One of the truest Hungarian patriots, they said —and they were zealous Protestants themselves. It perhaps is not known in America, how nobly many of the Catholic clergy sacrificed all for Hungary." - Wimmer - Archbishop of Gran

Pg 272

"On entering the town, I drove directly to the house of a gentleman, who was expecting me, to whom I had been introduced by the Protestant Bishop of Debreczin, Prof. Cz" he never says anyones name -

"The Professor had been abroad, during the Revolution, with a pupil, and was not at all one of " the compromised party," at which I felt more secure, for it was evident I was getting under a much more oppressive police system, than in other parts of Hungary."

I could not generally lead the convereation, I observed in my friend's house, it turned much less on pohtics, than it had everywhere before.

Pg 273

In the course of the day I was introduced at the club, or Casino, where there were some very good reading-rooms, with German and Hungarian papers, and a few billiard-tables. After some agreeable conversation there, I called with my friend on the various persons to whom I had letters. - this guy just has letters for random people in Hungary.

Pg 274

Among our other visits, was one upon the only survivor of the fourteen generals, tried and condemned by the Austrian Courts, at the close of the War,

Thirteen were shot almost in a squad, and this man, the fourteenth, was respited, because he had opposed the Declaration of Independence, and had refused, I think, to serve after that. He had been an officer in the Emperor's service for twenty years before the Revolution. He is evidently " loyal" enough now. A hearty, whole-souled man, I should think, with a true soldier's honor, but a mere Haudegen, as they call him, " Slasher^'' no General, and no man for the new times. Such men will not be of much use, when the next Revolution breaks out in Hungary. At the dinner hour, as Professor C. did not dine at his house, we both proceeded to a Hotel near by.

In the course of the meal, my friend engaged the two others in convereation, and perhaps to show that he had an American as an acquaintance, asked me a question about Ujhazy's Hungarian Colony in America. I remember, I answered in a general way, that the " soil was very good, climate favorable," that " they all had to work very hard, like all the emigrants in America," and " that Ujhazy was much respected in America, &c,"

Pg 275

I recollect at the time, I avoided all farther conversation, from a kind of mistrust I felt of the two men at the table. I could scarcely tell why—perhaps because they were evidently not Hungarians —perhaps from some undefinable expression in their faces. However, I thought no more of it, and left the Hotel with my friend, to pay my visits to my various acquaintances.

Brace is confront by the Hungarian Police about not having turned in his passport upon entering the city.